Liyam Chitayat
United States
Mitochondria apps
Using mitochondria to download new functions into cells
Biography
Liyam Chitayat is a bioengineer on a mission to download new functions into the human body.
By the age of 19, she had completed her undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry, her MSc in Biomedical engineering, and had started her PhD at MIT as a Hertz fellow.
She was the Inaugural program manager of the Israeli version of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office, co-founded Nucleate Israel, and is a fellow with Renaissance Philanthropy's "Big-if-True ideas" program, and an Emerging Leader in Biosecurity fellow with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
In Liyam's words
“For the past 10 years, I've been trying to learn how to download new functions into our biology. This fellowship will enable me to actually do it, and there's no good way to describe what it means to feel all of these ideas finally coming within reach.”
Award
- 2026
O'Shaughnessy Fellowship
Using mitochondria to download new functions into cells
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